Greg Saunier: Yeah, the studio itself wasn’t the uncomfortable part. What made this different was that Mike was really keen on doing the whole thing, from giving feedback on roughs to mixing. It’s not that we’ve never worked in studios before, it’s that we haven’t finished records in studios, because studios are incredibly expensive. While we trusted Karl, we didn’t know Mike, and he didn’t know us, so we wanted to make sure that we weren’t wasting time on explaining ourselves too much and could just hit the ground running. Karl Hofstetter from Joyful Noise told us that Mike Bridavsky was interested in working with us at this great studio he helped design. John Dieterich: It was kind of a lucky accident. As a band that’s always innovating, what made you decide now was the time to throw out the old approach, and what about the proposition of recording in a proper studio with a proper producer made you uncomfortable in the past? The FADER: Miracle-Level is a huge event in that it’s Deerhoof’s first album recorded in a studio.